TAKEHISA YUMEJI (竹久夢二) 

 1914

                 
Osan (おさん)

Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  01/25/14
Medium: Woodblock printed cover for Chikamatsu no Hitobito (近松の人々) by Takasu Baikei (高須梅渓)
Personal Collection

Note: This copy was the 5th edition published on May 23, 1916, but presumably had the same cover
and frontispiece as the original 1914 edition.  It appears to depict a bunraku puppet production of
Shinjû Ten no Amijima.
 

                 
[Shinmachi Bridge] Shinmachi-hashi (新町橋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date:  01/25/14
Medium: Woodblock printed frontispiece for Chikamatsu no
Hitobito (近松の人々) by Takasu Baikei (高須梅渓)
Personal Collection

Note: This copy was the 5th edition published on May 23, 1916,
but presumably had the same cover and frontispiece as the
original 1914 edition.  It is unclear is the frontispiece bears any
relationship to the bunraku puppet play depicted on the book's
cover.  It has been included on this site in an abundance of caution.
 

                 
[Katyusha's Song] Kachûsha no Uta
(カチューシャの唄)

Play: [Resurrection] Fukkatsu (復活)
Performance Place: Teikoku Gekijô, Tokyo
Performance Date: 03/26/1914
Print Date:  05/29/1914
Medium: Woodblock printed sheet music cover
Personal Collection (version printed 06/22/1914)

Note: Senô Shin Kouta (セノオ新小唄) No. 1.  
This song was first performed by Matsui Sumako
(松 須磨子) in a Japanese adaptation of Leo
Tolstoy's  novel Resurrection and subsequently
enjoyed great commercial success as stand-alone
song.  The print appears to be inspired by a
production photo showing Matsui Sumako in a
 similar but not identical dress.
 

                 
[Hit Play at the Shintomi-za]
Shintomi-za Atari Kyôgen (新富座当り狂言)
 
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Print Date: 1914
Personal Collection

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.
 
 

                   
Nakamura Ganjirô I (中村鴈治郎) as
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)

Nakamura Fukusuke IV (中村福助) as Umegawa (梅川)

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Performance Place: Shintomi-za, Tokyo
Performance Date: 11/05/14
Original Print Date: 1914
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).

                 
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
Kamiya Jihê (紙屋治兵衛)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Original Print Date: 1914
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).
 
 

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Image courtesy of The Art of Japan

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Image courtesy of Art Shop Ezoshi

Note: Color variant of the first edition printed by Minatoya.

                 
Koharu (小春)

Play: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (心中天網島)
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Original Print Date: 1914
Image courtesy of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).
 
 
 

                 
[Backstage at the Bunraku-za]
Bungakuza no gakuya  (文楽座の楽屋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Print Date: 1914
Image courtesy of the National Museum of
Modern Art, Kyoto

Note: First edition printed by Minatoya.

                   
[Backstage at the Bunraku-za]
Bungakuza no gakuya  (文楽座の楽屋)

Play: ?
Performance Place: ?
Performance Date: ?
Original Print Date: 1914
Personal Collection

Note: Second edition printed by Yanagiya (c. 1920s).
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Umekawa (梅川) [and
Kameya Chûbē (亀屋忠兵衛; 龜屋忠兵衛)]

Play: Koi Bikyaku Yamato Ôrai (恋飛脚大和往来)
Print Date: 1914
Medium: Woodblock print from the book
Koi Hyaku Dai (恋百題)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

                   
Onatsu (お夏)

Play: Onatsu Kyôran (お夏狂乱)
Print Date: 1914
Medium: Woodblock print from the book
Koi Hyaku Dai (恋百題)
Image courtesy of Yamada Shoten